✯ Cell infected with HIV. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of HIV particles (red) budding from the membrane of a host cell. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) attacks CD4+ T-lymphocytes (specialised white blood cells), which are crucial in the body's immune system. It enters the cell and makes many copies of itself, which then destroy the cell as they emerge through its membrane. This severely weakens the immune system, causing AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).✯

tuberculosis - would love to have had before daughter was diagnosed with Dormant TB!! There are more people in the US that TB and do not know it unless you demand to be tested every single year. Get tested and get treated. That cold that you get constantly, could actually be a sign of TB. Once our daughter was diagnosed and began treatments, the colds backed off.

There are several stages of HIV, the first stages can include swollen glands in the throat, groin or armpit. In some cases there won't be any symptoms of HIV for many years. AID's symptoms will occur in the more advanced stages of HIV, this includes a very damaged immune system.